Spammers "bouncing" with my email address

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Does this mean my email has been hacked?

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I can't speak for hacked Gmail accounts, but two acquaintances who had their Yahoo! accounts breached by spammers knew because of these indications noted on a Yahoo! help page.

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Changes have been made to your account information.
There are logins from locations you don't recognize in your Login Activity page.
Your Yahoo Mail account is sending spam.
There are messages in your sent folder that you didn't send.
You're receiving multiple failed delivery messages.
You aren't receiving expected emails.

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It's possible for spammers to spoof the "From:" address on an email without hacking an account, so it's possible that your Gmail account has not been breached.

You can vastly reduce the odds of your Gmail account being hacked by enabling Google 2-Step Verification.

Once enabled, Google will only require 2-step verification if someone tries to access your Gmail account from a new device.

Google 2-Step Verification rocks, by the way.

Once you enable it there's almost zero concern about your Gmail getting hacked.

And it prevents any new device from accessing your Gmail unless the user knows your password and has access to your cell phone to receive a verification text.

You'll probably forget it's there, until you buy another computer.

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2-Step verification.

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Chase has something like this too. It's a little annoying to have to redo it if I re-image my computer or get a new one (since the wife and I both balance our accounts mainly via PC), but it's WELL worth it!